Changing the  future

Leo A. Mallette, Ed.D., and Co-author Name(s), Title(s)

Pepperdine University-Affiliation

Graduate School of Education and Psychology-Affiliation
 

Abstract

The abstract is the reader's first encounter with your paper, and is the primary means by which readers decide which report to read in their entirety. The abstract should provide a brief summary of the findings of the paper, and should be a stand-alone document that can be understood without reading the paper. Properly written abstract consists of the Title of the study and the body of the abstract. The abstract must be single-spaced! Abstract should contain no more than 175 words and must fit within the space allowed.

Introduction

Your introductions should not exceed two pages (double-spaced, typed). The purpose of an introduction is to acquaint the reader with the rationale behind the work, with the intention of defending it. It places your work in a theoretical context, and enables the reader to understand and appreciate your objectives.

Use APA 5th formatting throughout the paper: 12 point Times New  Roman style font, single column, double spaced, no right justification,  and an indent at the beginning of each paragraph. One inch margins on  all sides. No bold. No underlines. Figures must be readable and tables must be per APA 5th formatting.

Section 1. Title Should be Centered

References are to be shown per APA 5th which means to include surname(s) and year (Mallette, 2005) and must include the ?page number if it is a direct quote? (Mallette, 2005, p.27). The due date for  submitting this paper is July 15, 2010.

Subsection Title

Subsection titles should be flush left and italicized. Paragraphs in subsections are same as everywhere else: 12 point Times New Roman style font, single column, double spaced, no right justification, and an indent at the beginning of each paragraph. Sub-subsection Title. Sub-subsection titles should be run into paragraph and italicized.

Section 2. Title

Rules for formal writing are quite strict, though often unstated. Formal writing is used in academic and scientific settings whenever you want to convey your ideas to a wide audience, with many possible backgrounds and assumptions. Unlike casual conversation or emails to friends, formal writing needs to be clear, unambiguous, literal, and well structured.

Section 3. Title (for sections 3, 4, etc.)

In general, it is inappropriate simply to write as you would speak. In conversation, the listener can ask for clarification or elaboration easily, and thus the speaker can use imprecise language, ramble from topic to topic freely, and so on. Formal writing must instead stand on its own, conveying the author's thesis clearly through words alone. As a result, formal writing requires substantial effort to construct meaningful sentences, paragraphs, and arguments relevant to a well-defined thesis. The best formal writing will be difficult to write but very easy to read; the author's time and effort spent on writing will be repaid with the time and effort saved by the readers.

Conclusion

In the conclusion, the purpose should be discussed and analyzed as compared to the results obtained in the lab. Using the data, explain how the data supported or did not support the hypotheses explored. Explain what the results show, using the data to support individual conclusions. In summarizing, one must consider any sources of error that may have occurred in the experiment and then how one could eliminate them next time. What can be concluded from the experiment and what can be related to other more general concepts?

References

Blackburn, R., & Lawrence, J. (1995). Faculty at work - motivation, expectation, satisfaction.

        Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.

Hilmer, C. E., & Hilmer, M. J. (2005). How do journal quality, co-authorship, and author order affect agricultural economists' salaries? American Journal of agricultural economics, 87(2), 509 to 523.

Biography

Author 1. 100 to 150 words. Include e-mail address.
Author 2 is ? And so on for other authors. Author photos are optional.